D70s Bracketting

xendless xurbia

Hey guys! First post and I don't know if this belongs here. Here goes nothing.

I just recently purchased a D70s and was playing around with it heavily. It's been the first SLR type camera I own since 1991 when I had a Canon EOS Rebel.

I've also been interested in HDR photography for a while now, and one of the reasons I purchased the D70s was because of the bracketting feature on the camera...aside from the fact that it is an affordable DLSR with alot of punch. Now I've read alot on the "merge to HDR" option CS2 offers, and like it much much better than that Photomatix software, which renders images badly.

I've read up on the bracketting option and I think I have it down, but I seem to only take 3 pictures at a time (given that my camera is a 3fps unit)

Now I wanted to know if there was an option other than taking 5 to 7 pictures in a row, without having to manually change the exposure setting on my camera.

It's getting annoying, and I'm losin patience fast.

Thanks

Jason

illuminati919

So wait, you're shooting at 3 fps but you're only capable of takin 7 photos ?

If that is your problem then you need to drop the quality of the photo, if you're shooting RAW then drop it down to jpeg L and you will be able to take more, and jpeg M will alow more and so forth.

Shay Stephens

I don't know the options of that camera, but a bracket of three photos is pretty standard. Whenever I do big brackets, I do it manually.

xendless xurbia

illuminati919 wrote:

So wait, you're shooting at 3 fps but you're only capable of takin 7 photos ?

If that is your problem then you need to drop the quality of the photo, if you're shooting RAW then drop it down to jpeg L and you will be able to take more, and jpeg M will alow more and so forth.

I should have been clearer. My bad. What I meant was that I can only bracket 3 different exposures at a time. The 5 to 7 were done changing the shutter speed manually. Kind of like Shay Stephens referred too.

What I should have said, is simply, are there other ways to bracket automatically, with ANY DSLR, which allows you to take more than three different exposures at a time.

For example, when I read the tutorial at luminous-landscape, I came across this 7 bracket set that Michael Reichmann shot, and wondered if it could be done automatically, of if it had to be done manually.

I'm pretty new to this DSLR scene, and I'm trying to understand what is what. I appreciate the feedback you guys have given me so far. The last time I touched something that wasn't point and shoot (no dirty minds here) was maybe 7 years ago!

mmroden

I have the d70, and it's posssible to get some decent shots with the three-level bracketing, like so:


but to get the detail on the ground below, you'd need more than 3 levels.

I've had the most success with handheld, 3-shot bursts of bracketed exposures with the bracket being +/- 1.3 stops (and in relatively bright conditions). More than that, and cs2 has a hard time decently merging the shots, and less than that, and you might as well have just taken the shot itself.

The way to automatically take a 7-shot burst? Buy a d200, d2hs, or a d2xs Otherwise, we're stuck with manual modification of settings. Those cameras, according to Thom Hogan, can do 2-9 bracketed exposures automatically.

xendless xurbia

Thanks for all your help guys. It's been greatly appreciated. I look forward to testing what you guys have recomender in this thread over the course of the weekend.